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Elon Musk Wants His Free Speech Regardless Of Consequences

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Elon Musk gave an epic interview to CNBC’s David Faber about free speech, election interference, and other topics.

GALLAGHER: Elon Musk sat down with CNBC. Here is a smart guy. CEO of Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX. The guy is brilliant. Listen to what he said to CNBC’s David Faber about election interference and the Biden election.

FABER: You do some tweets that seem to be, or at least give support to some who would call others conspiracy theories.

Musk: Well, yes, but I mean, honestly, you know, some of these conspiracy theories have turned out to be true.

FABER: Which ones?

Musk: Well, like the Hunter Biden laptop.

FABER: That’s true.

Musk: Yeah. So, you know, that was a pretty big deal. There was Twitter and others engaged in an act of suppression of information that was relevant to the public. That’s a terrible thing that happened. That’s election interference.

GALLAGHER: That is election interference. Of course it is. The Left is lighting their hair on fire over this guy. He is calling them out. He is pointing out that suppressing a story that is damaging to Joe Biden. Forget Hunter. This troubled guy. His dad knew what was going on and everybody knows it. It was election interference. The Democrats want to scream about Trump and Russia. How did they assist Joe Biden. Then it gets interesting. Elon Musk has called out George Soros and criticized him on Twitter saying he is engaged in destroying civilization. Listen to this exchange when the reporter challenges Elon’s criticism of the billionaire activist who funds radical progressives DAs to harm American communities.

FABER: But how do you make a choice? You don’t see I mean, in terms of when you’re going to engage. I mean, for example, even today, Elon, you tweeted this thing about George Soros. I’m looking for it because I want to make sure I quote it properly. But I mean, you know what you wrote but you basically—

MUSK: I said he reminds me of Magneto. This is like, you know, calm down people. Let’s not like make a metaphorical case out of it.

FABER: You also said, you said he wants to rule the very fabric of civilization and Soros hates humanity. Like when you do something like that, the—

MUSK: Yeah I think that’s true, that’s my opinion.

FABER: Okay but why share it? Why share it especially, I mean, why share it when people who buy Teslas may not agree with you, advertisers on Twitter may not agree with you. Why not just say, hey, I think this. You can tell me, we can talk about it over there. And you can tell your friends, but why share it widely?

MUSK: I mean, there’s freedom of speech. I’m allowed to say what I want to—

FABER: You absolutely are, but I’m trying to understand why you do because you have to know it’s gotta there, it puts you in a, in the middle of the partisan divide in the country. It makes you a lightning rod for criticism. I mean, do you like that? You know, people today saying he’s an antisemite. I don’t think you are.

MUSK: No, I’m definitely not I’m like, I’m like a pro-semite, if anything.

FABER: I believe that probably is the case.

MUSK: Yes.

FABER: But why would you even introduce the idea then that would be the case.

MUSK: I mean, it looks we want to make this a George Soros interview.

FABER: No, god, no, I don’t want to at all. But what I’m trying, it even came up though in the annual meeting, I mean, you know, do your tweets hurt the company? Are there Tesla owners who say I don’t agree with his political position because and I know it because he shares so much of it. Or are there advertisers on Twitter that Linda Yaccarino will come and say, you got to stop man or, you know, I can’t get these ads because of some of the things you tweet.

GALLAGHER: Then there was a 12 second pause. He continued.

MUSK: You know, I’m reminded of a scene in “The Princess Bride.” Great movie.

FABER: Great movie.

MUSK: Where he confronts the person who killed his father. And he says, “Offer me money. Offer me power. I don’t care.”

FABER: So, you just don’t care. You want to share what you have to say?

MUSK: I’ll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.

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